AHRQ Disparities Report
2006 National Healthcare Disparities Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
December 2006
Being uninsured has a large negative impact on almost all aspects of health care quality and access. In fact, among adults, the negative effects of being uninsured are typically larger than the effects of race, ethnicity, income, and education. Multivariate analyses suggest that uninsurance is an important mediator of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities, although race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position often have independent effects as well.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr06/nhdr06report.pdf
Comment:
By Don McCanne, MD
Martin Luther King Jr said it:
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most
shocking and inhumane.”